NYSC kidnap as metaphor for decline into beastiality, by Dele Sobowale
“NYSC kidnap: N950m ransom throws families into panic” – News Report, October 3, 2026. For the parents of 19 graduates traveling from Ibadan, Oyo State to Owerri, Imo State, there is nothing happy about the month of October. President Tinubu’s Independence Day address to the nation deliberately excluded insecurity among the matters on his national […]
No to Interim or National Government (2)
By Dele. Sobowale “There is a pleasure in being mad which none but mad men know” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 147 This second and last part in the series is in response to a text message from our reader 0806-666-7339 who asked me “where do we go from here?” […]
No to Interim or National Government
By Dele Sobowale 0806-666-7339: “Uncle Dele, the 2023 elections have come and gone. The country is at crossroad; our politicians have employed crude strategies to divide NIGERIANS to serve their selfish interests. HOW DO WE PROCEED FROM HERE?” I have been asked that question over one hundred times since the “final” results of the presidential […]
Sixty days to form cabinet? Absolutely ridiculous
By Dele Sobowale ‘Buhari signs bill compelling President, Govs to form cabinet within 60 days” – News Report, MARCH 18, 2023. “A fool if offered eternity will not know what to do with it” – Epicurus, 341-270 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ. It was the third paper I was reading on Saturday. And, right […]
President, Govs disown the poor
By Dele Sobowale “Fish rots from the head.” If you want to know how good or bad a country is, just take a look at the top politicians. It is now becoming an axiom of political science, that it is almost impossible to have a great country with absolutely atrocious leaders in charge. It all […]
LP, NNPP, PDP and their M*A*D posture
“Alliances are held together by fear; not by love” – Harold Macmillan, 1894-1986, British Prime Minister. Harold Macmillan said many notable things. But, one of his most famous was his announcement regarding “the wind of change blowing through the continent [Africa]” on February 3, 1960 to the White South African Parliament. That was the period several […]
